He looked like the ideal husband. He seemed like the perfect father. That's just what they needed. But that's not what they got.
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
$4,104,962
April 9, 1993
Knickerbocker Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
34 people
Robert De Niro
Dwight
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Ellen Barkin
Caroline
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Toby
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Jonah Blechman
Arthur Gayle
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Robert Zameroski
Arch Cook
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Chuck Bolger
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